Presented by the Ethnocultural Art Histories Research Group (EAHR) with the support of EAHR|Media and the Concordia University Research Chair in Ethnocultural Art Histories. The EAHR Diversifying Academia Library Research Residency is organized in partnership with Concordia Libraries and supported by the Department of Art History. EAHR’s activities are made possible with the support of The Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art and the Department of Art History. ​

What does it mean to come together as exhausted ones?
How does exhaustion already sit in our bodies as BIPOC activists?
What are the relationships between resistance, exhaustion, and structural oppression?

​This workshop-gathering is inspired by Akwugo Emejulu & Leah Bassel’s recent article, ‘The politics of exhaustion’ which proposes, among other things, the notion of ‘structural exhaustion’. Rather than simply discussing these themes, Rajni invites those who are exhausted to come together and experience solidarity, respite, and reflection. There is no required reading for the session, and you will be welcome to participate in any way you need, including remaining camera-off if this is most comfortable for you. Rajni will share the article that inspired the session with everyone after we meet.

In order to create a safer space, Rajni has requested that this online gathering is restricted to people who identify as BIPOC* (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour).

Please register in advance so that we can send you details nearer to the time. The form to register is here: https://forms.gle/QDVEi5mgHtonZtt57

* These terms can feel clumsy, but are helpful in the work of decentering whiteness. If you self-identify as BIPOC you are welcome here, no questions asked.

Co-presented by SAVAC and Cinema Politica
In partnership with the EAHR Concordia (Ethnocultural Art Histories Research Group) and EAHR|Media CISSC Working Group, Concordia University.

A discussion will follow the screening with curator Sharlene Bamboat and artists Swapnaa Tamhane (August Fröhls) and Oliver Husain. Moderated by Ronald Rose-Antoinette.
MONITOR 13 invites the viewer to consider the indecipherable traces and charges of the past. It is an invitation to dance to the meditative, moving images in the program. Through letters, biographies, surfaces, sounds and architectures, the curators have assembled the films to gesture not only towards things lost and hidden along the way, but their connections to living and renewal.
MONITOR is SAVAC’s longstanding experimental South Asian film and video program that holds steady engagement with an international community of artists, curators and critics, initiating dialogues around the shifting nature of South Asian politics, economies and landscapes through artists’ film.
Curators: Priya Sen, Sharlene Bamboat
Artists: Faraz Anoushahpour & Parastoo Anoushahpour, Rehana Zaman, Nazli Dinçel, Michelle Williams Gamaker, August Fröhls, Weeda Azim, Oliver Husain

For more information: ​http://storytelling.concordia.ca/events/mapping-african-nova-scotian-migration-and-settlement-1881-1930

For more information: ​http://storytelling.concordia.ca/events/powerful-wind-turtle-island

In collaboration with EAHR/Media (Ethnocultural Art Histories Research in Media) and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC)
February 15, 2019, 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.


In this artist talk and conversation, Jaret Vadera will discuss key arcs, propositions, and questions guiding his multifarious practice.
Bio
Jaret Vadera is a transdisciplinary artist whose work explores how different social, technological, and cognitive processes shape and control the ways that we understand the world around and within us. Vadera's practice is influenced by cognitive science, post/de-colonial theory, science fiction, Buddhist philosophy, and the study of impossible objects.
Vadera's paintings, prints, photographs, videos, and installations have been exhibited widely at venues such as: the Queens Museum, MoMA, the Smithsonian APAC, Asia Society Museum, Aga Khan Museum, Maraya Art Centre, and the Bhau Daji Lad Museum.
Vadera completed his undergraduate education at OCAD University and Cooper Union School of Art. He received his MFA from the Yale School of Art in New Haven.
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Jaret Vadera discutera des principales démarches, propositions et questions qui orientent sa pratique éclectique.
Biographie
Jaret Vadera est un artiste interdisciplinaire dont le travail explore comment différents processus sociaux, technologiques et cognitifs façonnent et dominent les manières dont nous comprenons le monde qui nous entoure et se trouve en nous. Sa pratique est influencée par les sciences cognitives, les théories postcoloniales et décoloniales, la science-fiction, la philosophie bouddhiste et l’étude des objets impossibles.
 
L’artiste a présenté ses tableaux, impressions, photographies, vidéos et installations dans de nombreux lieux d’exposition, notamment au Queens Museum, au MoMA, au Smithsonian APAC, à l’Asia Society Museum, à l’Aga Khan Museum, au Maraya Art Centre et au Bhau Daji Lad Museum.

Jaret Vadera a effectué ses études de premier cycle à l’Université de l’École d’art et de design de l’Ontario et à la Cooper Union School of Art. Il est titulaire d’une maîtrise ès beaux-arts de la Yale School of Art, à New Haven.